Kangxi Dictionary

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The Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典; Kangxi Zidian) was a dictionary, compiled under an edict from the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi of China in 1710. It was completed and published in 1716 and named in honour of the Emperor.

The dictionary contains some 47,000 plus entries, with Chinese characters ordered under 214 radicals together with the pronunciation in traditional fanqie spelling, together with references to books, works and dictionaries which contain the entry character.

It also contained rime tables with characters ordered under rime classes, tone, and initial syllable sounds.

zh:康熙字典fr:Dictionnaire de caractères de Kangxi